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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

After Reading: BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE by Maggie Stiefvater

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. (Goodreads)People, this series, just, *sigh*...it's so good. I really don't even have words for it. The characters are fantastic. The world is intricate and magical yet feels so real at the same time. And the writing, as ever, is amazing. My only real issue with it is that I wish I could write like that ;) I'm a bit behind on the series, but am vowing to catch the last one as soon as I can. Even if I'm not sure I really want the series to end!Anyone caught this series? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

9 comments:

I tried the first book and made it 50 pages in before putting it down. The author has a beautiful way with words, but her balance of detail/character building to plot just doesn't grab me. It was the same with her Shiver series. Here's a classic example of how subjective books are, eh?

I've been putting this series off, just because I don't want to leave it. You know? I've got The Raven King on my tbr list and I'm already lamenting finishing it. She's my favorite author. I love her words. All of her words. Ever.

This isn't my type of thing, but I can SO relate to envying a writer's ability. That just happened to me. I'm trying to write a MG mystery because I LOVE mysteries, but I read a book by a NYT bestseller that is just amazingly good. "Reese Witherspoon bought the movie rights" good. I like to believe it helps us improve to read these types of books, right?!

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I am the author of COLORS LIKE MEMORIES, THE CHEMISTRY OF FATE, and SURRENDER THE SKY, AN ABSENCE OF LIGHT, and TRAVELERS! In the real world I do my best to teach students about the awesomeness that is anthropology. I also sequence dead people's DNA (for fun!).